The discovery of the storage ability - and nothing else - had left me too 'wired' to sleep.
> Yes, that is the hill I am dying on. No, we are not talking about it further. It is better to remain unattached. For me and this child. Okay? <
As much as I shared the barest snippets of the results… windows into how I shamefully reacted into a withdrawn mess to both my brother and a few other key people, after they'd shown me that their love only extended to quite well defined breaking points?
My wolf feels none of that in the shapes and forms I try to express. I wish I did not either as I was born as a fox - but funnily enough, the opposition of the nature of shifters in both of these worlds carries over… even to that.
Beasts that develop a deeper sense of humanity and all the emotional complexity that brings in mine… compared to the werewolves here. Humans growing more bestial in their responses and instinctual reactions.